Voere K15A

The History of Voere Company

Voere is an Austrian firearm manufacturer with origins in the German Black Forest. In 1948 Ing. Erich Voetter and his partner Paul Restle founded a metal processing company KOMA, which was located in Furtwangen.

They started the weapons business by producing basic air pistols with a single load. In 1955 the partners realized that their company name was not very genuine and decided to rename it Voere, by combining their surnames. In the 1960s they expanded their production onto air rifles and small-bore rifles, and the company’s headquarters was moved to Vöhrenbach. Shortly after the move, they started producing small semi-automatic bore rifles.

In 1964 Paul Restle sold his part of the company, which was in a good state. He was replaced by DI Alfons Ruhland, who was Elrich Voetter’s son-in-law. Due to a lack of workforce and space, Voere bought a company called Sportwaffen Tyrol in Kufstein. The production plant was originally built by Krieghoff for weapon production during the war. After the purchase, it was managed by DI Alfons Ruhland, while Walter Hermann was the CEO of the German company in Vöhrenbach. With this expansion, they added hunting bolt action and shotgun rifles to their production list.

In 1972, Voere received a patent for a small-bore rifle with a drum magazine on top and was asked to make a functional redesign, since the original did not work as intended. It was named AM 180 (American-180) and became the world’s first rifle with a laser aiming device. Even though the new submachine gun was not perfect, it could fire up to 1800 rounds per minute, making it the fastest SMG in the world. Later, another updated version of this rifle was produced in Slovenia and known as MGV 176.

After the disastrous nuclear accident in Chernobyl in 1986, hunting in Scandinavia was prohibited, which led the sister company in Vöhrenbach into shutting down production and selling their facilities to Mauser. The next year Voere merged with a metal company, Kufsteiner Gerätebau und Handels GmbH, and started producing various mechanical parts for many different industries. In 1992, Voere registered and began the production of their caseless cartridges. In 2007, Sven Ruhland stepped into his father’s shoes and became the CEO of the company.

Voere K15A Rifle Review

Voere K15A is a lightweight bolt-action rifle, great for shooting small predators at close distances. The rifle has a steel barrel with a carbon fiber shell, its muzzle is threaded for 0.5-inch - 20 UNF. It features a 5-round detachable polymer magazine, but a single-shot version is also available.

The two-locking-lugs robust bolt with a big ball handle cocks the rifle when opened at a sixty-degree angle. There is a simple two-position firing pin safety lever at the rear right side of the steel receiver. The carbon-reinforced polymer stock can be easily positioned in five different lengths, while the height of the cheek pad can be adjusted with an Allen key.

The action is of a push-feed type. It is equipped with a crisp trigger, which has two stages and is adjustable. The overall length of the rifle is 940 mm (37-inch) with a 480 mm (18.9-inch) barrel. It weighs only about 1400 grams (3.1 lbs).

Voere K15A, chambered for .22 LR

Figure 1: Voere K15A, chambered for .22 LR (Source: https://www.qldgunexchange.com/products/voere-k15a-bolt-action-rifle-adj-synthetic-22lr-5-shot)

Voere K15A Calibers

Voere K15A is chambered for the following calibers:

.22 LR

Voere K15A Variants

Voere K15A is available in the following variants:

Standard
Integral

Voere K15A receiver comes with an 11 mm dovetail rail. There are also optional Weaver/Picatinny rails on the sides and the bottom of the stock.

Voere K15A, chambered for .22 LR

Figure 2: Voere K15A receiver, chambered for .22 LR (Source: https://www.qldgunexchange.com/products/voere-k15a-bolt-action-rifle-adj-synthetic-22lr-5-shot)

Voere K15A

Scope Mounts Interchangeable With Voere K15A

Rifles That Have One-Piece Scope Mounts Interchangeable With Voere K15A

For one-piece mounts to fit on a rifle, the mounting surfaces of these rifles must match in all dimensions. The following rifles are interchangeable:

All rifles with an 11 mm dovetail rail

Rifles That Have Two-Piece Mounts Interchangeable With Voere K15A

For two-piece mounts to fit on a rifle, mounting surfaces must match in all dimensions except the B distance. B distance can vary because two-piece mounts can be installed and adjusted closer or further apart. The following rifles are interchangeable:

All rifles with an 11 mm dovetail rail

Best Scope Mounts for Voere K15A

Fixed Scope Mounts for Voere K15A:

This Hawke Match mount is a great option for this rifle, providing you with a good quality build at a low price. It is made of aluminum and comes with a ten-year warranty.

Repeatable Detachable Scope Mounts for Voere K15A:

If you plan to use multiple scopes on your rifle, we’d recommend the Rusan Pivot mount, which can be easily detached and is zeroed when reattached. It is made of aluminum and comes with a thirty-year warranty.

Picatinny rails for Voere K15A:

If you wish to install a Picatinny rail on top of the dovetail, Recknagel offers a good solution. It is made of aluminum and comes with a thirty-year warranty.

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If you happen to own this or any other rifle, we would appreciate it if you could help us expand our database by sending us some photos of the rifle receiver (the bare mounting surface of the rifle without the mounts installed). For your help, our company offers a fair return in terms of practical rewards.

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Introduction

In recent years we can observe that a trend of Picatinny rail has become widespread and global. It is driven by the NATO standardized rails, more commonly known as the Picatinny rail standard. Picatinny rail being the New Jersey Arsenal that developed it in 1995.

These mounting options are revolutionary. The biggest and best advantage being that the Picatinny rail can be used its entire length and not bordered to a few pre-designed slots like for example the Weaver rail standard was before.

The other main advantage is the ease of use and interchangeability. If a product is meant for a Picatinny rail design it will fit all Picatinny-rails, no matter the manufacturer or date of production.

Picatinny/Weaver Rail

Picatinny Rail and Weaver rail profile

Design

The Picatinny rail is almost exclusively crafted from a single piece of metal (in some cases aluminum). In this manner, the axis of the Picatinny rail is perfectly straight and aligned with the axis of the firearm. Therefore the rifle scope which is mounted onto this kind of configuration is certainly aligned with the rifle / gun and the trajectory of the ammunition.

Weaver rail design on the other hand is usually manufactured in two separate pieces, greatly increasing the possibilities for the axis to be crooked, overlapping, and out of line.

It is always harder to align two separate pieces to a third line than it is to align one piece to another. In this way, the lapping of two mounting rings on a single-piece Picatinny rail is no longer required.

The single-piece rail will assure that both rings are perfectly aligned to each other and that no unwished stress is transferred to the riflescope.

Picatinny compare to Weaver Rail

The Picatinny rail itself is an evolutionary step forward from the older Weaver rail. The main difference between Picatinny rail and Weaver rail is the spacing of the slots. Picatinny rail design has them evenly placed exactly 5.23 mm from one slot to the other, 3 mm deep. For this reason, the mounting options are repeatable and the same as other firearms using the Picatinny rail standard.

Interchangeability was a major driving force in the development of the new standard as different NATO armies need to be compatible with each other.

Weaver rail has 3.8mm wide slots and these slots can be placed anywhere on the Weaver rail and in any number that the producer wished.

Advantages of Picatinny design

A big advantage for using the Picatinny rail design is the ever-present recoil stop. Furthermore, the manufacturing of the rail is not very technically demanding and can be done without the use of state-of-the-art machines which greatly reduces the cost of the finished product, making it very affordable.

The Picatinny rail is easy to mount and usually, this type of configuration does not transfer negative stresses and forces from the fired weapon to the rifle scope.

In addition, the Picatinny rail with its very long useable surface works well for mounting longer rifle scopes or to achieve optimum eye relief.

The durability and toughness are other big pluses for this solution.

Manufacturers of Popular Models

A majority of the Picatinny rings are fixed, but a number of best rated European manufacturers (EAW, MAK,..) have, in recent years, put a lot of effort into the development of detachable ring with100% repeatability, with which it becomes easy to remove the scope from the weapon without the use of tools.

No re-zeroing is needed with such mount options, but these models tend to be expensive.

Weaver and Picatinny Rings

Picatinny rail and weaver rail share one more thing. It is possible to use the Weaver ring and the Picatinny ring on the Picatinny-rails, but it is usually impossible to use the Picatinny ring on the Weaver base. The reason being the above-mentioned positioning and spacing of the slots.

Picatinny mounts have a 5mm recoil stop that goes into the rail slot and since
Weaver rail only has 3.8mm wide slots such rings do not fit on Weaver rails.

Due to this reason, the Picatinny-rails are popular and prevailing on the market in recent years and eventually, these options will completely oust the Weaver rail from the market.

Voere K15A

The History of Voere Company